We do not need to kill or destroy to win. We are a movement that builds and not destroys.
CESAR CHAVEZI’ve always maintained that it isn’t the form that’s going to make the difference. It isn’t the rule or the procedure or the ideology, but it’s human beings that will make it.
More Cesar Chavez Quotes
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History will judge societies and governments – and their institutions – not by how big they are or how well they serve the rich and the powerful, but by how effectively they respond to the needs of the poor and the helpless.
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When a man or woman, young, or old, takes a place on the picket line for even a day or two, he will never be the same again.
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The people who give you their food give you their heart.
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It’s amazing how people can get so excited about a rocket to the moon and not give a damn about smog, oil leaks, the devastation of the environment with pesticides, hunger, disease.
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We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community. Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.
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We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure.
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Our language is the reflection of ourselves.
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We must understand that the highest form of freedom carries with it the greatest measure of discipline.
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Concentration is inspiration. You must be completely overtaken by your work and your subject. Only then do all your influences and experience come up to the surface.
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Never, never is it possible to reach someone if you become angry or bitter only love and gentleness can do it. Maybe not this time but maybe the next or the hundredth time.
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Nonviolence is really tough. You don’t practice nonviolence at conferences; you practice it on picket-lines.
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Only when we have become nonviolent towards all life will we have learned to live well with others.
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Our language is the reflection of ourselves. A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.
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We’ll organize workers in this movement as long as we’re willing to sacrifice. The moment we stop sacrificing, we stop organizing.
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Because we have suffered, and we are not afraid to suffer in order to survive, we are ready to give up everything – even our lives – in our struggle for justice.
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